ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

[jamincan]

Kitchener Central or Waterloo Central would be even more preferable to me.

[mpd618]

You make a good point that all the locations will share the same name. Will King Central make sense for someone at Union Station? I would be concerned that I was going to King City.

If you're in Toronto, it's Union Station; if not, it's Toronto - Union Station. Similarly, you certainly would need to prefix Kitchener to a name like King Central, or Central, or whatever else.

I guess Kitchener Central has some appeal as a name, but it would be pretty confusing since a lot of people would assume that it's in the middle of downtown.

[Drake]

Arguably it is closer to the middle of downtown than the middle of King St.

[ookpik]

Why not just Kitchener Central seeing as it is a gateway location?

Or something even more descriptive like Kitchener Gateway or Kitchener Hub?

[Canard]

How about King/Victoria Transit Hub?

[Canard]

Track is going in at Bearanger right now!

[DHLawrence]

Kitchener King Street would be nice. Guelph already has a Central Station, so it adds a bit of variety, plus it still differentiates the station from the proposed suburban station to be built outside downtown. I would have preferred Victoria Station, but I can understand not wanting too many Victorias on the map.

[Markster]

Pictures exist!

https://twitter.com/Markster3000/status/...6222998528
https://twitter.com/rideIONrt/status/602634411327238145
https://twitter.com/HAL8950/status/602625838291496960

   

[Spokes]

In a Keanu Reeves voice:

Whoa  that just about blew my mind, dude.


Seriously, I think unexciting names is the way to go. This way I don't have to wonder where exactly the GRH hospital stop is.

Edit: I read the table backwards first time around.

I think unexciting names is the way to go too.  Make it clear what the stop is.  This will be particularly valuable for people from out of town who don't know the city as well.

I too though think King Central is a placeholder name until they name the transit hub

On a side note, I go away for the weekend and come back to 128 new posts on the site.  Crazy!

[zanate]

Since Victoria is a major street, it should either be called Victoria or Victoria Central. King Central doesn't let anyone know where they are. Presumably, they already know that they are on King. If they want to keep 'King' in the name, they could call it King-Hauptbahnhof, reflecting our German heritage and the fact that it is a transit hub.

Breithauptbahnhof?

Arguably it is closer to the middle of downtown than the middle of King St.

That's true, Allen and GRH stops are much closer to the middle of King St. King Central is closer to the edges.

... and with that, I'll just take my hat and go. Remember, tip your server!

[Canard]

I tried to get the local media involved in the whole "first spike*" thing, but they seemed uninterested.

* - Pandrol e-Clip

[rangersfan]

How many sets of track will be run along the Waterloo spur? 2 for Ion and 1 to replace the existing track?

[Markster]

2 tracks.
The westerly track, the southbound ION track, will apparently be doing dual duty, handling freight during off-hours.

[Square]

When they did the track work for Bearinger, did they place both set of tracks? Also I wonder how they pave over the tracks.

[rangersfan]

Thanks Markster. So basically there won't be any freight run in parallel with Ion?